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can confirm, have republican parents. they say they do their research but they don’t know that scrolling the front page of truth social isn’t considered research
I'm sorry. It must be tough at times being at odds with your own parents on such topics
the internet is my haven until i can express my opinions without instantaneous backlash
in other words, i’m doing fine-ish
My father keeps telling me "all the news stations, even the liberal ones are saying X." Then, when I ask what stations, he'll say something like "channels 6, 10, and 13." The problem is that I live in a different area than he does. His "6, 10, 13" are different than my "6, 10, 13." He doesn't seem to get that.
And this doesn't even get into the fact that the "liberal stations" he's talking about might actually be owned by Sinclair. Or the fact that my father often thinks people agree with him even after they say that they don't agree. (So he might watch a news report that says "X isn't actually happening" and come away thinking "this station agrees that X is happening.")